The Stockman

Here is photo from some other thread. Used a gar gill plate to lay the knives on and part of a long nosed gar jawbone..... Have seen a few Texas sized stockman with worn stag and smoothed jigged bone also, usually out of my relatives pockets, sometimes even to cut fish line.......300

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jackknife said:
Ugh, life is too short to eat ugly fish!:eek:

Carl.
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can't knock it until you've tried it! ;) It's not to bad if you cook it right! This skull is from one that I caught a few years ago. I just went ahead and threw him in with the catfish and panfish, yum :). I will say they can be hard to clean as they have a layer strong scales.

I threw my case pen knife in there for good measure;)
 
I am among those who subscribe to the cliche...they call it fishing, not catching. I can't count the number of times I've gotten skunked and gone home with a smile on my face. I actively seek hard water.
 
jackknife said:
The sudden weight on my line gave me a start, and I started to fight with something unseen. I reeled in, and came face to face with my first Gar. It was a memorable experience. Being from Maryland, I was used to fish that looked like fish. Not a mutant critter that looked like a cross between a crocodile and an eel, with a little bit of fish around the edges. Needless to say, the first meeting was startling.

"What the hell?" I found myself exclaiming out loud.
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Classic! :thumbup: I have a distinct memory of fishing in a tournament with my dad during an Indian Guides outing when I was about 9. It was in central Florida somewhere. I caught a gar and was ecstatic. I couldn't understand why everyone thought it was a garbage fish ...... I thought I'd landed Godzilla's legless cousin. :D Dad snipped the line and let the ugly bastard go. :(

-- Mark
 
I remember my first gar,
I was about 8 or 9 years old and fishing off a dock on south fork river. I had been trying to catch one all week end, I had a couple get close but fate made my friend leave is net by the dock (I was alone at the time) I cast my big hunk of panfish out in the water and after about 5 or six minute I saw my line go tight and realed in the fish was around 2 feet long but with all those teeth snapping at me It looked more like a 10 foot shark sitting in my net. :eek: I walked the half mile or so back to out cabin to show my dad (he thought I caught a bit ole snake) but in the end I had to putt her back to get eatin by the much larger long nose gar out on the river. It was probably are year or so after that the I cought a 4 foot but no way in hell me and my other 9 year friend where going to reach in the water and grab that sucker lol.
 
That old cowboy had excellent tastes. Most of the time I make do with a sub-4" slipjoint, but I fully understand the affection a man might have for a 4 1/4" stockman. It's a whole lot of knife. The stag scales and carbon steel blades are icing on the cake.

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- Christian
 
Nice one Christian (knife and ball in cage). I don't carry stockmans a lot anymore because I don't find the need for that many blades. But of all the ones I have, this one by Eugene Shadley is my absolute favorite!

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Hey jackknife, as usual one of the best posts :thumbup: I love the look of the stockman pattern and being young and foolish still lust after a large blade length. :) :P My eyes are set on the Queen cattle king inn zebra wood:P check out the stag version of it too, it rocks :P
 
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